Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English by John R. Stilgoe

Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English by John R. Stilgoe

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Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English by John R. Stilgoe

Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English by John R. Stilgoe

$1,007.93
Sale price  $1,007.93 Regular price 
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781568984087.0
FormatHardcover

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This small book is an intriguing and valuable addition to our knowledge of a changing landscape. Shallow Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the richness of our vernacular language and a lament on its passing and with it, the passing of the words we need to understand our shallow water regions, once the primary landscape of America and now facing extinction, both physical and linguistic. Literary, etymological, historical, and vernacular investigations of such varied terms as guzzle, creek, and chartreuse, Stilgoes definitions are lyric explanations of words whose original meanings have been eroded by time.

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